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Aperam

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

dedicated to sustainable forest management and charcoal production

The biochar produced at BioEnergia is used in thier steel-making process as a natural and renewable substitute for fossil fuels. This allows us Aperam to entirely eradicate the use of extractive coke and makes their steel a leader in terms of CO2 footprint.
Country: Brazil
Status: Operational
Type: Biochar
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Biochar Life

Biochar Life

Phrao District, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Empowering Smallholder Farmers. Healing Our Planet.

Biochar Life is on a mission to tackle climate change, enhance public health, and alleviate rural poverty by working with smallholder farmers. They train communities in the creation of biochar and help them generate c-sink credits, putting more money back into their hands while making a global impact.
Country: Thailand
Status: Operational
Type: Biochar
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TCHAR

Taipei City, Taiwan

Recycling of household sewage sludge and waste biomass.

Through TCHAR’s carbon dioxide removal plants, industrial companies, agriculture and wastewater treatment companies in every region can convert their waste into biochar on-site, while generating renewable energy.
Country: Taiwan
Status: Operational
Type: Biochar
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Biosorra

Biosorra

Nairobi West, Nairobi, Kenya

Provides biochar as affordable & sustainable fertiliser to farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Biosorra makes biochar and then provides it as an affordable and sustainable biofertilizer to farming communities in sub-Saharan Africa. For every tonne of biochar placed on fields, 2.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere. At scale, this has the potential to remove millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Country: Kenya
Status: Operational
Type: Biochar
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Safi Organics

Safi Organics

Nairobi, Kenya

Decentralised production of carbon-negative fertiliser from rice-husks.

Safi Organics utilizes rice husks to make biochar that is also used as a carbon-negative organic fertilizer. Its biochar fertilizer has been used by more than 10,000 farmers since its inception, resulting in a 30% increase in crop yield and a 50% increase in farmer income. Currently sequesters around 33,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, with the potential to sequester millions more.
Country: Kenya
Status: Operational
Type: Biochar
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Takachar

Takachar

Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Turns waste-biomass into carbon-negative bioproducts.

Takachar develops small-scale, low-cost portable equipment to convert waste biomass into carbon-negative bioproducts. Takachar-produced biochar already improves crop yields, while its operations are providing new rural livelihoods. It has the potential to remove 2.4 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year at scale.
Country: India
Status: Operational
Type: Biochar
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Plant Village

Plant Village

Busia, Kenya

Helps smallholder farmers adapt to and mitigate climate change.

Plant Village helps smallholder farmers adapt to & mitigate climate change by using restorative agricultural practices such as the production and use of biochar fertilizer, no-till agriculture, and cover crops. They want to empower farmers to collectively remove gigatonnes of carbon dioxide annually.
Country: Kenya
Status: Operational
Type: Biochar
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Planboo

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Turn bamboo into biochar

Planboo applies biochar to soil. Planboo’s methodology sequesters carbon dioxide for upwards of a thousand years. It has the potential to reach millions of landowners in the tropics, enabling the gigatonne-scale removal of carbon dioxide.
Country: Sri Lanka
Status: Operational
Type: Biochar
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Husk

Husk

Kampong Thum, Cambodia

Uses discarced rice husks to make carbon-negative fertiliser

Husk uses rice husks to produce biochar that is used as a cheap, carbon-negative fertilizer. Its initial pilot phase plans to remove 16,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Country: Cambodia
Status: In development
Type: Biochar
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The Nakivale Biochar Project

The Nakivale Biochar Project

Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Birere, Uganda
The Nakivale biochar in partnership with C-Go, is empowering refugees in Africa’s oldest refugee camp to locally produce biochar for soil enhancement, allowing the project to receive direct carbon removal credit revenues to financially sustain itself. The methodologies it’s trialing have the potential to lock down billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide annually at scale.
Country: Uganda
Status: Operational
Type: Biochar
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